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...makeup team tell him, snap too easily, so Ejiofor's grown his own, acquiring some useful expertise in applying cosmetics in the process. "I've learned that wet nail polish gets everywhere," he says. "And you should always do your eye makeup first." This stage-trained son of Nigerian refugees first turned heads in 2002, when Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things came out. Ejiofor's intense, understated performance as Okwe, the Nigerian exile who discovers an organ-trading ring operating in London, lifted what might otherwise have been a routine thriller into high drama. This year he'll be tough...
...other groups that were approved were the Harvard College SCUBA Club; the Harvard College Nigerian Students’ Association; the Harvard College Real Estate Club; the Pacific Northwest Club; the Harvard College GeoSociety; College Matters, a public service group which sponsors seminars about applying to college; and the Mic Club, an organization devoted to stimulating interest and support for hip-hop artists and fans...
...daughter of the democratically-elected president of Nigeria, calls on President Neil L. Rudenstine and the Undergraduate Council to support a campaign for the University to divest from Nigeria. The UC, dozens of professors, and several student organizations support her efforts. Abiola calls for divestment when the Nigerian military junta, which seized the country in 1993 and imprisoned Abiola’s father, hangs 11 activists, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. Harvard keeps its holdings in Nigeria, including $35 million in Shell Oil, a participant in business with Nigeria’s military junta and a knowing...
Other works which have received critical acclaim include Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), a collection of poems, and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996), which Soyinka adapted from a lecture series he gave at Harvard. He has also written two well-reviewed autobiographical works, Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981) and Ibadan, The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir...
...openly homosexual bishop and a Canadian diocese authorized church blessings for same - sex unions. Those positions may reflect popular secular opinion in some parts of North America, but they have infuriated conservative Anglicans all over the world. Josiah Iduwo - Fearon, an archbishop in the fast - growing, 17.5 - million - strong Nigerian Church?the second largest Anglican community after Britain's?spoke for many conservatives when he said, "The Bible is very clear. We see [homosexuality...